PhD Scholarships
Dryland Salinity Research
The Co-operative Research Centre (CRC)

The CRC for Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity is a joint venture of NSW Agriculture, Charles Sturt University NSW, Dept. Natural Resources & Environment Victoria, Dept. Prinary Industries & Resources South Australia, University of Adelaide, Dept. Agriculture WA, Conservation & Land Management WA, The University of Western Australia and CSIRO.

The CRC conducts research into:

• the functioning of natural ecosystems
• plant improvement
• land use systems with balanced water use
• resource economics and the social impacts of landscape change.

Disciplines include plant ecology, plant genetics and improvement, plant physiology, agricultural and resource economics, sociology, salt land agronomy, soil physics and chemistry, water and nutrient cycling, computer modelling, geographic information systems, farming systems etc.

The CRC invites applicants interested in studying for the PhD degree in any of these areas at any one of the three partner universities to apply.

Students will be supervised jointly by university and industry supervisors.

Applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents.

Application forms and conditions: Business Manager, CRC Salinity, The University of WA, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009 or mstickel@agric.uwa.edu.au or www.crcsalinity.com/news

Closing date 23 November 2002
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